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A prominent cultural belief is that science and spirituality are at odds with each other, whereas the deeper truth is that the scientific study of consciousness fully supports a synthesis of modern science and spirituality. Eben’s deep near-death experience (NDE), that occurred during a week-long coma in November 2008 due to severe bacterial meningitis, completely changed his personal and scientific world view, from materialism (or physicalism, the basis of our current conventional scientific paradigm) toward philosophical positions that honor the mental and spiritual aspects of our existence as dominating over the physical. In this video module, Eben will explore the most important medical and spiritual features of his NDE, including the challenges the medical details of his case present to modern neuroscience in any attempt to come to a more complete understanding of consciousness as revealed through his experience. He will also examine some of the extraordinary support for primacy of mind that was initiated in the 20th century with the advent of quantum mechanics, where the primacy of consciousness was first taken seriously by world leaders in quantum physics.